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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often approach cybersecurity like teenagers behind the wheel; they travel on convinced that bad things “won’t happen to me.” This naïve mindset blinds them to the rising onslaught of cyber threats, from phishing scams and deepfake attacks to ransomware and data breaches. VikingCloud’s 2025 SMB Threat Landscape Report reveals the … Read more
Hyped as the future’s greatest innovation, AI technology is rapidly becoming cybercriminals’ favorite weapon, warns the “2025 AI Threat Report” by KELA. To be fair, the matter of whose future it will innovate leaves much to unfold. Picture AI as a razor-sharp chef’s knife—it can skillfully create gourmet masterpieces. Misused, it can wreak havoc. Cybercriminals, … Read more
“Quishing (QR Code Phishing) (is a) rapidly growing attack vector, increasing from 0.8% of phishing attempts in 2022 to 12.4% in 2024,” reports Intersys, a UK company that provides cyber risk management services to the insurance sector. Other cyber experts are sounding the same alarm, plus warning of “brushing,” another scam increasingly linked in quishing. The quishing … Read more
Report Highlights How Businesses Can Reduce Cyber Risk as Threats Persist Coalition, an active insurance provider, has released its Cyber Threat Index 2025, shedding light on the dominant cybersecurity threats from 2024 and what to expect in the coming year. The report reveals that most ransomware incidents in 2024 began with compromised virtual private networks … Read more
GitGuardian has released its 2025 State of Secrets Sprawl Report, and the findings are alarming. A 25% increase in leaked credentials year-over-year has pushed the total number of exposed secrets on public GitHub repositories to 23.8 million in 2024 alone. The most shocking statistic: 70% of secrets leaked in 2022 remain active today, highlighting a … Read more